Table 1 The summary of significant associations with global climate index
Global climate indices | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Region | EMI | NINO3.4 anomaly | SAM | DMI | ||||
Direction | Lag | Direction | Lag | Direction | Lag | Direction | Lag | |
East Sepik | − | 0, 0–4 | ||||||
Madang | − | 0 | − | 0, 0–1, 0–2,0–5, 0–6 | ||||
+ | 0–3 | |||||||
Eastern Highlands | + | 0–2, 0–3, 0–4 | − | 0, 0–1, 0–4, 0–5 | ||||
Western | − | 0, 0–1 | − | 0–4, 0–5 | − | 0, 0–1, 0–2 | ||
Port Moresby | − | 0–1, 0–2 | − | 0–4 | + | 0–1 | + | 0, 0–1 |
− | 0–4 | |||||||